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Problems with Centrelink
Being transexual, and a employee of Centrelink, I find it bizarre that they have no idea what transgendered is….. On monday I will look up the eRef* number for the relevent document for them to study for you. Might even cut and paste it into an email to myself so I can post it here for you.
Remember it isn”t what you know but who you know that is important. And as I have found there is a tranny in EVERY large corporation or government department willing and able to help you out in your times of need!!!!!!!!!! But you didn’t hear it from me…. OK?
Cathii
*eRef is the intranet version of the centrelink bible. quote the number to them make them read it and then ask them to ask you the questions that they need answered.
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thats a good idea to find out some information for people who are on pensions, not help allowance, Im sure that there are a lot of TS folk out there who don’t know where to start in telling centrelink because they are worried about there “powers”
even I would be uming and arring about what to say to centrelink about transition
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Quote:% years ago an arro made a decission that my partner and I should be sepearated and this was done. LAst week this was reviewed by the Business Intregrity unit on the goldcoast, and
(1) The First person I spoke to didnt know what transgender was
(2) The Second person I spoke to didnt know what a transgender person was
(3) The third -Team Leader- told me I missunderstood what the other 2 have said. We where foced to complete (seperated and living under the one roof form)At no time have we ever saifd we are sepearted, and that we live in a typical lesbian relationship, but it seems that these guys are hell bent on changing the orgingal decission.
I have told them that if we are partnered again, I if I found another couple in the same situation then I will be screaming victimisation to the media.
My question is – has anyone else had similar big brother tatics by staff at centrelink who dont know who Transgender People are?
Samantha
(Gurugirl)Samantha, (and all those who are going through or may go through this situation),
It seems centrelinks position is a little bit complicated under these circumstances (when is centrelink ever simple???)
It appears that if you are a member of a same sex couple and then have full srs, centrelink can then recognise you as part of a couple (centrelink cannot recognise same sex partners as a couple due to commonwealth law).
If you are a member of a couple that is female and post-op transexual m2f then centreink will not recognise you as a couple as they now consider you and your partner to be the same sex. HOWEVER if you have been legally married, centrelink will recoginise you as a couple as the marriage act takes prescedence over your sexual reassignment.
All very complicated….. Hope you and other people out there can use this information.
Cathii
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What about Pre-op, but drivers licence says female, and change of name to female has been done, and your in a rela. ship with another gentic female?
So, Pre-op had the psych reports, Your female, you have letters, but have not gone SRS yet, and your partner is a GG?
If that all makes sence!!
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Quote:So, Pre-op had the psych reports, Your female, you have letters, but have not gone SRS yet, and your partner is a GG?
If that all makes sence!!
Pre-op m2f is always considered male by centrelink. Therefor if you are in a relationship with a GG then you are considered a couple no matter what documentation you have to support the REALITY of being female.
Being pre-op myself, I wonder if that means I should use the boys toilets at work!!!!!! LOL
I do wonder however if you had your sex changed on your birth certificate what that would make you, married or unmarried. As I was born in England I can, after SRS have the sex officially changed, and have a brand new “original” birth certificate issued under my rightful sex and new name. (I know this is possible for people born in WA and also ?NSW?) Would that mean, that even though I have never been divorced from my wife even though we have been seperated for some 14 years, if the marriage would ever have existed under the marriage act. After all it is illegal currently for two women to be married.
Cathii
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Quote:Being pre-op myself, I wonder if that means I should use the boys toilets at work!!!!!! LOL
I actually asked my supervisor the other day and she said that yes I should legally use the boys, but as long as no one else on the floor objects then she doesn’t much care which I use.
Quote:As I was born in England I can, after SRS have the sex officially changed, and have a brand new “original” birth certificate issued under my rightful sex and new name. (I know this is possible for people born in WA and also ?NSW?)After a little further investigation, it is WA, SA and VIC that will issue a gender recognition certificate to their residents, and will issue “new original” birth certificatesto anyone born in that state as long as they possess a valid and recognised gender recognition certificate. ie you could be born in WA but live in Vic, get the recognition certificate from Vic and apply in WA for your new birthcertificate.
All of these states administer this through the Attorney Generals Department, Births Deaths and Marriages. No reply from them as to whether that would anull a marriage. Does anyone know?
Cathii
